Hotel & Spa Saint-Jacques in Paris

We stayed at this hotel in Feburary 2023, so bear in mind this review is somewhat overdue. My fiancé and I were here for five days.

I do not understand how this hotel is four stars. It's like a B&B. The photos on booking.com etc. are completely misleading. The room was not very spacious and the paint flaking from the wall, the bathroom was low quality. Very small and hard to get around in. Two coffees and teas - neither of which were replenished at any point of our stay. The bathrobe and slippers they give you in the room are dirt cheap and scratchy - my partner's actually ripped when he put it on.

The site says there's a bar? If there is one I had no idea where it was. There's a small room at the entrance with a bottle of champagne there that looks decorative. Was that the bar? Who knows. It looked like the waiting area of a bougie dentists.

The staff are pretty rude. There was one guy on reception during a night shift who was lovely, but the rest were abrasive and patronising. To be honest though, the whole city is like that.

On that note, its greatest strength is its location. You are so close to the heart of the city and it is very easy to access the big locations from there on foot. There are also some fantastic South Asian restaurants nearby which I can't recommend highly enough.

It's not the worst hotel I've ever stayed in by a long shot, but four stars? Absolutely no idea how it got that rating. It's certainly overpriced.

Our room smelled quite bad, hit us immediately upon opening the door. They are very antique styled (physical keys that they require you to leave at the front when you exit and pick back up when you return). Small place, rooms ok but definitely feels outdated. I’d say keep in mind the price ~relative to Paris prices~. Aka if it’s $225/night in the states it’s pretty good but $225/night in Paris is low end which is what this place is.